Water-elevator



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH RIDER, OF NEWARK, OHIO.

WATER-ELEVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 33,007, dated August 6, 1861.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH RIDER, of Newark, in the county of Licking and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Drawing Tater from `Wells, Oisterns, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l and Fig. 2, are perspective views of my improved water-drawing apparatus; Fig. 3, a section in the line y, y, of Fig. l; Fig. t, a perspective view of a portion of the apparatus that is not clearly shown in the other drawings; Fig. 5, represents a form of bucket chain which I intend to use in the said apparatus.

Like letters refer to similar parts in all of the drawings.

My said improved water elevating apparatus consists essentially of the box, or curb, A, the large wheel a, the band or chainm., and the two buckets m, m, together with the other auxiliary parts to be hereinafter described.

The operation of my improved water elevator is as follows. One of the buckets m, being full of water, is elevated, by means of the crank z., the shaft (Z, the gear-wheel e or f, (as the case may be) the main wheel a, and the band, or chain, fa, until the upper edge of the bucket comes in contact with the partition Z9, which partition, being swung longitudinally upon a rod placed behind the middle thereof, yields upwardly and out-- wardly, in such a manner as to cause the bucket m, to swing outwardly to the position most clearly shown in-Fig. 3; the spout q, making its exit through the opening t, in the curb A, provided for that purpose. The door Z, is partially opened by the pressure of the bucket m against it, and at the same time the curved valve-rod r catches in the notch z', in the under side of the door Z, thereby opening the valve s and causing the contents of the bucket to be discharged into a vessel placed upon the platform B for the reception thereof. During the elevation of the one bucket of course the other is descending; and, in order to elevate the lower bucket, which is now full of water, and to cause the upper bucket, now empty, to descend, it is not necessary to reverse the motion of the crank 1' but, by exerting a proper degree of represented in Fig. t is attached to the curb A, in such a position that the limb g thereof serves as a support for the inner end of the axle d, and the limb g serves the purpose of a support for the inner end of the axle o. By shutting the loop-catch j into one of the teeth of the wheel c, the buckets m m may be held suspended at any desired height above the water. In case of accident to the gear wheels e, f' or c, the crank /z can be attached to the axle b. v

I am aware that a stationary inclined partition has been used in a water elevating apparatus, with the view of accomplishing the same result that is attained in my improved water elevating apparatus by the use of the hinged partition 29,' but, when this stationary inclined portion is used, the bucket, having reached the full height to which it is desired to elevate it, comes in contact with the said partition only in a few points; and, if the motion of the bucket in ascending is at all unsteady, the said bucket is liable, after having come in contact with the said stationary inclined partition, and during its outward movement, to waddle and possibly to roll back from its hold upon the said partition and reassume a vertical position; thereby rendering it necessary to lower the bucket a short distance, and to elevate it again with great caution and deliberation, in order that it may be properly guided forward to discharge its contents; whereas, when the hinged partition herein described is employed, the entire upper edge of the bucket comes in contact therewith, and the said hinged partition, yielding upward in front, invariably guides the bucket with unerring accuracy forward to the proper position for discharging its contents directly into a vessel placed upon the platform B, for the reception thereof.

Having thus fully described my improved water elevating apparatus, what I claim apparatus for drawing Water from We11s,&c., signed and witnessed this 20th day of April, 10 1861.

JOSEPH RIDER.

Vtnesses:

JAMES WILEY, J. H. WING. 

